These two manuscripts together show how this ‘modern’ discourse on love has, by 1500, displaced Minnesang as a form of noble self-representation. This means that literature was functioning as a status symbol. Both manuscripts also show a lack of interest in the material aspects of the book – and a beginning of philological interest. This is, in fact, one type of multi text codex that leaves room for individual interests (in the scope of the texts finally bound together as a book, making a choice from existing booklets), but has a clear focus on a core genre of late medieval textuality.
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